Trump Administration Cuts Funds For "Critical" NASA Missions

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Date

March 31, 2017

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Media Highlight

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Salon

"'The value for the global economy far, far exceeds [the] costs' of a mission like CLARREO, Roger Cooke, a risk mathematician at Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan environmental think tank, said."

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Earth Observations for Policy

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Roger Cooke

Senior Fellow Emeritus

Roger Cooke is a senior fellow emeritus at RFF. He joined RFF in September 2005 as the first appointee to the Chauncey Starr Chair in Risk Analysis.

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